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Feb. 27, 2020 / VWPT Vancouver

Mark Sakai on Building For a Warming Future, the Grand Bargain, and Housing Affordability

PriceTalks Mark Sakai on Building For a Warming Future, the Grand Bargain, and Housing Affordability Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute…
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Jul. 25, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Vancouver 2018 Civic Election Update: Summer Swelter Edition

Incremental change in the still-big field of entrants, as we edge under the 90-day mark on our trudge towards the…
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Jun. 14, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

West End In Flux

The West End is like most other parts of Vancouver — always changing.  Here’s a building nearing completion on Harwood…
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May. 06, 2016 / Gordon Price

Hello to all this

Further to the post on changes to lower Davie Street – “Goodbye to all this” –  Business in Vancouver  covers the bigger…
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May. 04, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot: Vancouver Envy and Regret

From our eclectic reader, Daily Scot: Many longtime residents of San Francisco, Miami and other hot U.S. cities complain of…
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Apr. 21, 2016 / Gordon Price

Vancouver Disconnection: A Stampede in the West End

Ian Young has produced another remarkable story for the South China Morning Post. The implications are profoundly disturbing.  Not only…
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Apr. 20, 2016 / Gordon Price

Surprising densities at some SkyTrain stations

Michael Mortensen posted the work of Jens Von Bergmann on his blog, The Liveable City. “Jens ran some 2011 census data to…
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Apr. 14, 2016 / Gordon Price

Possibilities: Downtown as it might have been

Andy Coupland sends in some images of proposed development projects.  Here’s a proposal for the North Shore of False Cree,…
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Apr. 12, 2016 / Gordon Price

The Changing Face of Seattle

Explosive growth in South Lake Union (ground zero for the mammoth tech sector – Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc) that will…
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Mar. 25, 2016 / tanyapazzy

First Baptist Church dev app proposes 120 #parking spots >minimum. In #downtown #Vancouver.

969 Burrard St & 1019-1045 Nelson St This is my second article on Good Friday about a development application that…
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Mar. 25, 2016 / tanyapazzy

NIMBY Rage: Not just for towers any more. Townhouses too.

809 West 23rd Avenue The last PT Guest Editor wrote about comparing Burnaby’s density to Vancouver’s in Who Does Density Better?. …
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Mar. 15, 2016 / michaelkluckner

Why Build So Much So Fast?

Blogger and Grandview activist Jak King analyzed the city’s breakneck construction pace in a recent post. He notes the projections…
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Feb. 05, 2016 / Dan Ross

Squamish – The Heart of the Deal

Some doings a-transpirin’ up the Sea-to-Sky in Squamish: A long-planned oceanfront development agreement moved another step closer this week with…
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Feb. 04, 2016 / Dan Ross

Motordom in Action: Edmonton Development and Roads

An interesting little item in yesterday’s Edmonton Journal about developer contributions for new infrastructure: Road building rules around new Edmonton…

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